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By Millard Fillmore
It is not strange, however much it may be regretted, that such an exuberance of enterprise should cause some individuals to mistake change for progress and the invasion of the rights of others for national prowess and glory.
- Source
- Third Annual Message, December 6, 1852
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Fillmore's third annual message to Congress, December 6, 1852, in the passage on the country's rapid growth and enterprise.